Philadelphia Workers In A Changing Economy

Author : Gladys L. Palmer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781512805116

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Philadelphia Workers in a Changing Economy by Gladys L. Palmer Pdf

This is the story of what has happened to the ways in which Philadelphians make a living. It describes the impact of the two world wars, the depression, and postwar prosperity on the structure and functioning of the labor market. Philadelphia Workers in a Changing Economy places the findings of a unique research program investigating the problems and conditions of a metropolitan labor market in their historical setting. While the book has special interest for individuals and organizations concerned with the economic welfare of Philadelphia and its environs, its significance is more than local. It compares trends in the nation and in other metropolitan centers with those in Philadelphia. In addition the economic development problems of cities in general and the flexibilities and inflexibilities of an urban labor force in adjusting to a changing economy receive considerable attention. The statistical data, methodology, and analysis will be of value to regional economists, labor market analysts, and students of manpower problems in major industrial and occupational groups.

Author : Gladys Louise Palmer
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258288923

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Philadelphia Workers in a Changing Economy by Gladys Louise Palmer Pdf

Author : William J. Stull,Janice Fanning Madden
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781512807912

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Post-Industrial Philadelphia by William J. Stull,Janice Fanning Madden Pdf

The fourth report of the Temple-Penn Philadelphia Economic Monitoring Project continues the work of the Wharton Philadelphia Economic Monitoring Project, which began in 1984. This volume examines the manufacturing and service industries that have experienced employment growth in the region. Through detailed analysis of changes in the quantity, quality, and location of employment for specific industries in manufacturing, in producer services, in health care services, and in research and development activities, the authors explain why industries grew and asses their potential for further expansion.

Author : Gladys L. Palmer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781512805079

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Union Tactics and Economic Change by Gladys L. Palmer Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Andrew Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351153782

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Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers by Andrew Dawson Pdf

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and shaped. Historians are reluctant to examine nineteenth-century American business leaders as a social group and this study helps remedy the defect. This book interweaves a history of the social and economic development of the largest centre of machine building in nineteenth-century America with the dramatic political narrative of sectional conflict, Civil War and Reconstruction. Crossing and re-crossing the boundary between industrial and political history, it throws new light on the process of industrialisation, the Civil War conflict, and the contested governance of nineteenth-century cities. While this study is firmly rooted in the experience of Philadelphia's machine builders, its historiographic significance extends to many of the important themes of mid-century American history. By rejecting the conventional viewpoint that timid manufacturers were conservative supporters of the plantation South and insisting that workshop owners rejected slavery, this study reinvigorates one of the Civil War's enduring interpretative battles. Of interest to scholars of business, economic, social, labour, education, urban and Civil War history, it will no doubt stimulate further debate and add a new angle to our understanding of nineteenth-century America.

Author : Evelyn Bodek Rosen
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838638236

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The Philadelphia Fels, 1880-1920 by Evelyn Bodek Rosen Pdf

Though their involvements were national, and international, as well as local, their major contributions were made in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey. The Philadelphia Fels left a heritage of good works and social activism by pioneering in civic, fund-raising, educational, and progressive Jewish and secular movements."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Nikhil Goyal
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250850072

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Live to See the Day by Nikhil Goyal Pdf

An indelible portrait of three children struggling to survive in the poorest neighborhood of the poorest large city in America Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized families in the United States. This is the story of their coming-of-age, which is beset by violence—the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical assault, the hypermasculine logic of the streets, and the drug trade. In Kensington, eighteenth birthdays are not rites of passage but statistical miracles. One mistake drives Ryan out of middle school and into the juvenile justice pipeline. For Emmanuel, his queerness means his mother’s rejection and sleeping in shelters. School closures and budget cuts inspire Giancarlos to lead walkouts, which get him kicked out of the system. Although all three are high school dropouts, they are on a quest to defy their fate and their neighborhood and get high school diplomas. In a triumph of empathy and drawing on nearly a decade of reporting, sociologist and policymaker Nikhil Goyal follows Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel on their mission, plunging deep into their lives as they strive to resist their designated place in the social hierarchy. In the process, Live to See the Day confronts a new age of American poverty, after the end of “welfare as we know it,” after “zero tolerance” in schools criminalized a generation of students, after the odds of making it out are ever slighter.

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Labor
ISBN : UVA:X001725295

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Monthly Labor Review by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Pdf

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Author : Philip Scranton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052152136X

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Figured Tapestry by Philip Scranton Pdf

Figured Tapestry is a study of industrial maturity and decline, focused on the Philadelphia textile trades from the era of the Knights of Labor through World War II. Unlike the bulk fabric enterprises of New England and the South, Quaker City textile firms were 'flexible specialists,' combining skilled labor, versatile technologies, and quick responsiveness to demand shifts to create a vast array of seasonal goods. Scranton assesses the significance and limits of industrial versatility, owner-operated businesses, craft labor and its organizations, and the agglomeration of specialist mills in urban districts. An interdisciplinary blend of business, labor, urban, and economic history, industrial geography, and the history of technology, Figured Tapestry illuminates the hidden world of batch production, the 'other side' of American industrialization, and highlights both the benefits and the hazards of flexibility, a matter of moment to those who seek to reorient current manufacturing away from the rigidities of mass production.

Author : Debra Brill
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0253339499

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History of the J.G. Brill Company by Debra Brill Pdf

A biography of a company that for years was on the cutting edge of development of a rapidly evolving and growing industry--production of streetcars and railroad cars.

Author : Gail Radford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226702227

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Modern Housing for America by Gail Radford Pdf

In an era when many decry the failures of federal housing programs, this book introduces us to appealing but largely forgotten alternatives that existed when federal policies were first defined in the New Deal. Led by Catherine Bauer, supporters of the modern housing initiative argued that government should emphasize non-commercial development of imaginatively designed compact neighborhoods with extensive parks and social services. The book explores the question of how Americans might have responded to this option through case studies of experimental developments in Philadelphia and New York. While defeated during the 1930s, modern housing ideas suggest a variety of design and financial strategies that could contribute to solving the housing problems of our own time.

Author : Walter Licht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000132519

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Getting Work by Walter Licht Pdf

"An engagingly written, thorough examination of the . . . day-to-day working of the labor market."--

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Unemployment Problems
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Unemployment
ISBN : IND:30000091207096

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Readings in Unemployment by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Unemployment Problems Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1672 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011809329

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)

Author : Harry J. Holzer,Demetra S. Nightingale
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0877667357

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Reshaping the American Workforce in a Changing Economy by Harry J. Holzer,Demetra S. Nightingale Pdf

What directions should workforce policy in the U.S. take over the next few decades in light of major labor market developments that will likely occur--such as the retirements of baby boomers and continuing globalization? This new volume edited by Harry J. Holzer and Demetra Smith Nightingale presents fresh thoughts on the topic. This book offers policy discussions that are firmly grounded in strong research and that address the critical workforce issues of the coming years.